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SXSW 2014: Keepin’ Austin Weird

This entry was posted on March 13, 2014, in NME. Bookmark the permalink.

My Wednesday at SXSW 2014 started with the surreal experience of wandering into a rented kitchen in the east of the city to find Kelis hard at work preparing jerk chicken and other tasty treats for her own food truck. Be assured that her ‘Feast’ line of sauces are no ordinary celebrity endorsement – Kelis is a trained saucier and the sort of boss that all her kitchen staff refer to her as ‘chef’. We’ll find out today whether her jerk chicken brings all the boys to the yard.

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Kevin EG Perry is a writer for NME, Vice, The Guardian, British GQ and Lonely Planet Traveller.

His work has also been published by Time Out, Shortlist, The Independent, The Telegraph, Easyjet Traveller, Condé Nast Traveller, Crack, The Quietus, The Fader, Mixmag, Dazed & Confused, Loaded, Drowned In Sound, Mojo, Exeunt and others.

He was shortlisted for The Guardian’s International Development Journalism Award in 2009. His foreign correspondence has also appeared in New Internationalist as well as on behalf of UNICEF, Oxfam, VSO, the Fairtrade Foundation and the World Health Organisation.